Edd McCracken lives in Scotland, dislikes book spine breakers and loves when small words harmonise to make big ideas. Follow him on Twitter: @EddMcCracken
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David Foster Wallace is kicking my ass. I’m currently reading Consider The Lobster, his collection of essays, first published in ...
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And so, I will continue to buy and to read. Book by book, stone by stone I will build my cairns.
Edinburgh, my home for the past decade, is the world’s top literary city. National Geographic has just said so, therefore ...
This is a project for the most precocious amongst you. The ones who have read all there is to read. ...
Pity poor Q.R. Markham. Plagiarism’s current pin-up should have heeded the Delphic words of Wham! George Michael, that short-shorted, hairy-chested ...
Forget your Hobbits, Harry Potters, Nancy Drews, or Lions, Witches and Wardrobes. The book that convinced my eight-year-old self that ...